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Searl Effect: a tantalizing technology and a sad coda
An elderly Searl recalls achievements, blames former associates for
stealing Searl's Electromagnetic Generator (SEG), and outlines the basis of both
the generator and flight without pollution or G-forces.
by Mary-Sue
Haliburton
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2005
The following treatise is written in reference to and with commentary on
the following 411-page pdf document: http://www.searleffect.com/free/SEGREV/SEGREV.pdf
Searl Electromagnetic Generator Plates |
In 1946, at age fourteen and with the help of kindly
owners of a generator factory, John R.R. Searl built devices based on his
dreams. These devices allegedly flew without any batteries, fuel or wires. The
flight aspect was a surprise; the youth was attempting to build a magnetic
generator. As long-time associate and supporter John Thomas explains, at that
time the young Searl “had such conviction in his theory that he was able to
convince the factory owners to help him. All he had to do was pay for the
materials used in his experiment. He was given the use of the facility and the
help of a number of magnetics engineers.” (ref)
No longer having access to these resources, Searl has spent a lifetime
attempting to get this technology duplicated so that it can be made available.
The sad aspect is the amount of time, space, money and effort he has been forced
to devote to defending himself and trying to re-acquire what he says has been
stolen from him by former associates. In a lengthy, complicated document the now
elderly John R.R. Searl jumps back and forth between this theories and the
interpersonal tensions that stood in the way of achieving this goal of clean
energy and anti-gravity devices. These personality conflicts culminated in the
theft of the elderly inventor’s technology, apparently with the advance
knowledge if not consent of the police (p. 49), while he was in hospital. It is
difficult not to feel some sympathy for this man, who points out that he was
depriving himself of basic necessities in order to buy with his pension money
the expensive cameras and other equipment that others felt they had the right to
take.
On the home page of Searl's site, SearlEffect.com, is a list of data that is
available to non-members. Standing out among these is a report by a team of
Russian researchers who built a reduced-sized model based on Searl’s concepts
and ran it through several tests. In proper scientific manner befitting their
association with the Russian Institute for High Temperatures in the Russian
Academy of Science in Moscow, researchers V.V. Roschin and S.M. Godin carefully
explain what changes they made to the design, while attempting to respect its
basic principles. To reduce cost and complexity, they used only one magnetized
ring and set of rollers, not three as in the fully-fledged SEG. Their
experimental method is outlined in orderly steps, specifying the use of an
electric starter motor to get the assembly rotating, and then the point at which
they switched off the electrical input as the SEG model began back-feeding
energy when its rotational speed increased.
Their experimental results are striking. In many repetitions of the SEG warm-up
procedure and independent mode of operating, they recorded reduction in the
registered weight of the device on its mounting stand of 30-35 percent after the
device reaches 550 rpms. They were able to determine the electrical load
capacity of their version of the device as 6-7 kW. Above that limit, attempting
to attach additional load caused the SEG to exit its self-generation mode and to
slow down to a stop. They tried using clockwise and anti-clockwise motion, and
found that while an anti-gravity effect occurs with the former, the latter
causes the force to reverse and to increase weight (gravity effect) by the same
percentage at 600 rpms. Concerned for the mechanical stability of their device,
they did not test it at any faster rotation.
Even more dramatic effects including concentric thermal “walls” were
reported. These rings of magnetic fields around the device felt discernibly
colder to the physical senses in addition to registering 6-8 degrees Celsius
below the ambient temperature. And when the laboratory was darkened, the Russian
scientists observed an unusual toroidal field of blue-pink glowing luminescence
around the converter when it was in operation. Godin and Roschin admit they
cannot explain these phenomena using the conventional models of physics. Please
see:
http://www.searleffect.com/free/russianseg/russianseg.htm
If the Russian document is valid, Searl does “have something” even if it
seems that he’s his own worst enemy given his communication style. He glories
in not being educated in the conventional school system. Though the lack of this
education inhibits his expression and clarity, it does, he gloats, leave him
free to discover ideas for himself.
He is not alone here. Some other noted inventors have been self-educated, and
drew their inspiration from observing the natural world. Not least among these
is Viktor Schauberger who flatly refused to attend university when he saw that
his older brothers’ minds tended to shut down after they had been to
institutions of higher learning. (Living Energies, by Callum Coats, p.
3.) He saw that they had been indoctrinated with the rigid thought-system of
mechanistic science and engineering imposed on them by educators who were
alienated from nature, and it was from nature that this independently-minded
forester wanted to learn. Because the Swiss professor assigned to study the
validity of Schauberger’s theories believed that too few people at that time
would be able to understand it, his papers were locked in a vault for fifty
years. Did that action pave the way for acceptance as science progressed
(allegedly), or did it merely put the brakes on that progress?
This parallel is not meant as an assertion that Searl is in the same class as
Schauberger, but merely to corroborate the truism that minds can be closed and
unable to see new ideas when exposed to the same influences that trigger
previously unknown visions in the mind of an independent inventor. The critics
of Searl declare his invention to be impossible because they didn’t achieve it
themselves, leaving it to the “some fool like me” who did it anyway (p. 14).
This, Searl says, with his typical gutter humor, shows that those who claim they
are educated “do not state which end is educated, to my senses the impressed
image fails to refer to their heads.”
Creative ideas from early sources
The conceptual framework in which Searl developed his inventions traces its
origins back to the childhood game of hopscotch, with its squares marked on the
ground. From this he devised universal principles and his own unique school of
mathematics based upon “the law of squares”, and opposite principles or
dualism.
Searl says that another source of creative input came from dreams that were
repeated. In one of these dreams, he said he saw a steam roller – the only
large machine he was aware of in his youth – as a massive flywheel and rollers
bearing down toward him. (p. 17) A dull-witted child might simply have brushed
this off upon awakening if he remembered it at all. Or, if inclined to be
fearful or self-absorbed, he or the adults around him might have sought a “psychological”
explanation (e.g. this might have been interpreted as representing the threat of
being crushed by his father’s masculinity or some such Freudian nonsense). But
in this dream the boy John Searl glimpsed the basis of an invention.
It is difficult to judge the merits or lack of same in his unusual theories and
calculations. Some points he makes are corroborated by others. Searl insists on
the reality and importance of time as a factor in his equations. And Tom Bearden
(whom Searl admires) goes so far as to say:
"Only if a thing dimensionally contains time, can it 'occupy time.'
This point is so obvious that one wonders how so many of the scientists and
mathematicians seem to have missed it. By this criterion, e.g., mass does not
exist in time, a priori. To 'observe' or detect, in fact, means to stop time,
thus collapsing the wave function. However, it reduces the observable or
detectable to a spatial quantity, not a spatiotemporal quantity. In other
words, the ordinary scientific method destroys a part of reality in each
detection or measurement, yielding only a partial truth. not fundamental
truth." (http://www.cheniere.org/...,
note 35.)
Many experts have condemned Searl’s Law of Squares and unusual mathematical
theories as useless or ignorant ramblings. However, as Searl points out, his
loudest critics have not invented a clean-energy technology and been robbed of
it, so he does not consider their criticism to be based on real knowledge. He
devotes many pages and photos to the 2003 robbery, in which his former
associates entered his house and took his equipment, and also to complaints
about the burning of his papers. Naturally enough this incident was a huge
setback, has cost the 73-year old inventor a great deal of time and struggle
merely to regain the level he had reached. Focused the author is on that act of
theft and his reasons for stating that the perpetrators still fail to understand
the technology properly although they claim to be its owners, the continuing
references to this conflict distract the reader from wanting to study these
unique theories. However, this idiosyncratic thought framework is said to be
more fully explained in other books and papers authored by Searl. There are DVD
films available of public lectures that might also be more accessible than this
convoluted essay.
Coming at this from a more standard academic background, I admit to being
disconcerted by some of the apparent leaps of logic and redefinitions that are
thrown at us by the author. However, this may not be an indication that he is
wrong; it may be that my mind has become too rigid. For example, Searl espouses
a form of dualism, arguing that in everything there are two opposite states.
Logically, if at first he defines his two “prime states” as being “death
and life” (in that order, with death predominating (p. 5)), I am not expecting
him to then redefine the two prime states. However, this is what he does, not
once but several times. (I lost count on how many times he offered a new
re-definition of the prime states.) The second re-definition is “random”
(unpredictable) vs “uniform” (predictable). Is this evidence of disorderly
mind? Or does it suggest a more creative mind not hidebound by conventional
logic? Perhaps an educated reader should not assume that the first snap judgment
is the correct one! In any case, this redefinition is important, in that his
stated objective is to convert the random energy state to the uniform energy
state so that it can be made useful. (p. 21)
Searl does not intend to demolish conventional physics, but just to stretch its
rigid frame a bit. He is approaching from a different direction but using many
of the known principles. Searl mentions that Newton’s law of motion includes
the fact that motion is perpetual until acted upon by a different force. He
writes:
"Based on the evidence so far achieved, I can confirm now that I do
have absolute faith that we can with the correct team of personal [sic];
obtain the functions which are required to cause a mass that is free to move
and will do so on its own accord. It will rotate around another unit of
similar material but of greater mass until such time that another force is
applied to change its course of direction according to Newton’s law; that
being in this case a stop!" (p. 66)
This is a significant point. Regularly the mass media trots out the meme “perpetual
motion machine”– tightly linked to the concept “fake” – in order to
make us turn off our minds and not even consider the possibility that this might
be valid. In one of his informal letters found at http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/011905b.htm,
Bearden says:
Isn’t it sad, when one is attacked as a “perpetual motion nut” as a
“knee-jerk reaction” to the mere mention of electrical systems taking
their energy from the vacuum? Perpetual motion is supposed to be the epitome
of foolishness – when it fact it is Newton’s first law. Place an object or
system into a state of motion, and it will remain forever in that state of
motion unless and until some external force is brought in to forcefully change
it into a different state of motion. Then that SECOND one is eternal, until
the intervention of an outside force again.
There seem to be links to other inventors and theorists that may lend further
hints of validity. Searl states that his invention requires four materials to be
used, one of which is not a metal. He then throws in the word “WHY?” in red
capital letters. He does not explain it at this point, but leaves the question
festering so the reader has to wait until the next page and retain the curiosity
to persist. The reason is to control or limit the flow of electrons (p. 22).
However, this specification calls to mind the work of Wilhelm Reich, who used
layers of metal and non-metallic materials in his “orgone accumulator” which
is part of the weather-control system the Reich cloudbuster.
Though the concepts are not explained in the same words, there may be a similar
principle at work. And orgone energy is said to manifest as a blue glow. Could
this be part of what the Russians observed in their glowing blue-pink coronal
discharge? And what is the pink part? So far nobody has even offered a theory
including the Russian scientists who could not make a guess themselves! But
clearly there is something happening on the level of energy that we don’t yet
grasp, and therefore we should not be too quick to dismiss the inventor who
brings forward unusual ideas along with devices that appear to defy accepted
principles. We have to keep in mind that those accepted principles have brought
us pollution and destruction on a grand scale.
The article also discusses at length the technical difficulties involved in
creating the correct rollers and stators. Both the size and weight have to be
precise, and then magnetized with the proper sine wave configuration. One of his
conflicts with the former associates was his rejection of their attempt to grind
down the incorrectly sized components and re-magnetize them. Searl insisted this
could not be done as the true wave-form and balance would not be achieved. (p.
101, para 517) This conflict appears to have been one of the factors that led to
the breakup of the original team, and to their theft of his property, the
burning of his papers and several months of homelessness from which Searl is
still trying to recover.
While clean and safe in normal circumstances, Searl argues that extreme
precision and expert knowledge of his principles are both essential. He states
that his technology could be dangerous if mishandled. He even compares it to
atomic power getting out of control. (pp 14-15, para. 185-6) Is this
exaggeration intended to scare people away from supporting his competitors who
he claims lack adequate knowledge to build and run the SEG? Or could this clean
energy system pose a danger if not understood and managed with knowledge?
Apparently the Russian experimenters did not run into any danger; but they were
concerned enough to install a braking system to ensure that the SEG did not
escape from their control. In their rather conservative tests they had no ill
effects, but were also not exposed to the working device for a long time. Searl
claims health improves with exposure to the properly-working device, and as
proof mentions the healing of burns he had suffered in a kitchen accident. If
the SEG device is tapping into and running on orgone or life-energy, beneficial
effects rather than harm would be expected.
Some of the principles as explained herein appear to make sense even to us
conventionally-educated folks. For example, Searl compares the SEG to a
satellite. The roller must perform like a satellite by being in a state of
constantly falling inward but maintaining its “height”. However, there is a
difference in that the satellite is staying at altitude by means of velocity
alone. That is “achieved by shear [sic] force against nature.” When the fuel
or other force supply is used up, the satellite slows down and descends. Searl
says that his device is “a function of nature and it does not require the use
[of] force against nature” in order to remain in operation. (p. 104, para.
531-541) (NB: Searl is not referring to “shear” forces but actually intends
to use the word “sheer” as an emphatic adjective, which he regularly does
– and misspells in the same way – throughout the article. E.g p. 13, para
169)
If a reader can persist through (or skip over) the pages of diatribes against
betrayers, the later part of this long document contains a more detailed look at
his unique form of mathematics. This presents challenges on several levels.
Either cudgel one’s brains and try to grasp it, or set it aside and hope that
it isn’t necessary for a the general reader actually to understand this in
order to read what follows. One runs into the same dilemma reading Tom Bearden’s
work; the explanations of principle which are accessible to general readers are
inevitably followed by pages of equations which are not comprehensible without a
basis in the advanced mathematics in which he is apparently an expert. The
non-mathematician’s eyes tend to glaze over at that point! Suffice it to say
that both Bearden and Searl have invented magnetic generators, and that both are
using a mathematical system as the underpinning to their work.
Page 185 #726 contains a summary of the Searl Effect written by Fernando Morris,
who concludes:
“The electrons are then attracted brought back to the centre of the S.E.G.
where again the electrons are stripped of their kinetic energy; a cycle that
repeats continuously, taking advantage of energy that is not limited. These
natural and clean sources of energy are of the highest quality, clearly the
S.E.G. neither creates nor destroys energy, it only gathers and controls it
temporarily in to a useful form of electrical power.”
Pages 240 through to 261 mostly discuss the materials used and how the
different layers of materials fit into his mathematics of the squares concept.
After some digressions, this subject recommences on page 285 and continues to
about page 364, evincing knowledge of the periodic table and the properties of
the various metals and minerals related to magnetism. One has to respect both
the knowledge of this man and the personal struggle to keep going despite his
declining health and the continuing conflicts with his former company. In this
section there are a few personal asides such as the one on page 304::
“When I moved into this building I had to re-buy this Fluke 337 clamp
meter to replace the one that was stolen while I was made homeless. … It is
indeed a handy tool as it saves time disconnecting cables to check current or
voltage functions through that circuit. When you are carrying out research and
development work you sure want good tools as your life might depend on that
accuracy being absolute as far as possible.”
With another of his definitions of the prime dualities – reality vs fantasy
– in mind, he adds: “In the world of fantasy you can build flying saucers
and what not without costly tools or equipment that I will accept as a fact from
my hands on experience nursing mental patients. A vast number of people live in
the world of fantasy as they do not have the courage to live in the world of
reality that I must live in.”
On page 365 he begins to discuss in detail the meaty aspect of his life’s
work, the Searl Effect or Inverse Gravitation. This part is quite fun to read,
and is adorned with some attractive conceptual illustrations. One might in fact
begin to read at this page, and then if intrigued enough go back and try to wade
through the “squares” and the interpersonal squabbles in the company.
Is the Searl effect genuine? Timely funding and support for the aging inventor
may bring back to reality in useful size what the young boy Searl achieved in
miniature in 1946. We would all do well to hope that day will come! The
alternative is the status quo: the monopoly held by the wealthy on finite forms
of energy that is destructive of our environment. Since Tesla discovered
aetheric energy almost a century ago, the tantalizing possibility has existed
that there is a cleaner, healthier way to power our transportation and other
energy needs. What stands in the way, as all who walk that independent path have
discovered, is human greed and entrenched economic interests. It is not
governments that have stopped this. As Searl explains, prime ministers and
presidents have sent him letters of encouragement, but have not had the clout to
order the energy companies and their wealthy bosses to step aside once money has
been invested in hydroelectric dams, nuclear plants, oil wells and distribution
systems, and so on ad nauseam. (p. 61, para. 389-99)
It may take nothing less than a total spiritual transformation of humanity to
bring about the change to clean energy.
However, Searl’s robust personality carries him on through difficulties that
would stop many others. He asserts, “I am not a rebel or have rebel ideas, for
if I did airlines would be under my control now. … The relationship in the
phrase MY JOY simply means that these conditions will all contribute to the
acceptance of the INVERSE – G – VEHICLE as the rightful means of
transportation in the atmosphere and space.” (Page 396)
# # #
Further background to this inventor’s work is available in a short article by
John Thomas at:
http://www.searleffect.com/free/articles/artextra.html
Also, the Searl Effect website has a "builders only" page.
http://www.searleffect.com/free/memprev/memprevfs.html
See also
Page posted by Sterling
D. Allan May 22, 2005
Last updated June 04, 2007
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